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Author: Chris Preovolos

Look, we know that the final season of “Breaking Bad” is a big deal and everything, but people in Connecticut were calling 911 to report that their cable was out shortly before the airing of hit AMC show Sunday. The Fairfield Police Department took to Facebook to call out these idiots. Well, hang on …

AP — Narragansett Beer is reintroducing a 1970s can design featured in the movie “Jaws.” In the 1975 film, Capt. Sam Quint, the shark hunter played by the late Robert Shaw, crushes a can of ‘Gansett with one hand to intimidate the oceanographer played by Richard Dreyfuss. The company says the retro design depicting a …

Isn’t it ironic that Alanis Morissette’s 1996 “Ironic” single doesn’t contain much irony? Not really, it’s just poor songwriting, but now a performer from New York has taken the time to help Alanis out with her new video, “It’s Finally Ironic.” In the original video, Morissette convulses in the back of an Oldsmobuick while singing …

According to the plaintiffs in a Florida lawsuit, the state inadvertently banned all computer and cell phones in a hasty attempt to crack down on Internet gambling. In an attempt to ban electronic gambling houses, House Bill 155 classifies “any machine or device or system or network of systems” that could be used for games …

It’s no surprise that several cities in California are some of the most diverse in the nation considering the state itself is one of the most diverse in the nation — but it’s also home to the two least-diverse cities. The folks over at NerdWallet.com have compiled a list of the top 20 most diverse …

“SIGHTED SUB, SANK SAME” CARRIES A CERTAIN GRAVITAS WHEN TRANSMITTED IN ALL-CAPS, BUT THE UNITED STATES NAVY IS BREAKING WITH TRADITION. THE NAVY’S FLEET CYBERCOMMAND HAS ISSUED A MEMO ALERTING SAILORS AND OFFICERS THAT SOON, CLASSIFIED COMMUNICATION WILL NO LONGER HAVE TO BE IN ALL-CAPS. BECAUSE NOT EVERYTHING IS A DIRE EMERGENCY OR AN EMAIL …

As life imitates art and we find out just how closely “Big Brother” is actually watching us, George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four has seen sales skyrocket. Originally published in 1949, one edition of the novel has seen a 4,566% increase in sales since news of the National Security Administration’s telephone records surveillance program was …

TMZ is reporting that Michael Jackson kid, Paris Jackson, was rushed to the ER early Wednesday morning in what they are saying may be an apparent suicide (according to their anonymous sources). The celeb site is pointing toward social media for clues to the 15-year-old’s state of mind, though, quoting the Beatles on Twitter isn’t …

Crowdfunding has officially jumped the shark. What was once a novel idea for raising money for charitable causes, super cool inventions, and as a way to prove that average folk can be way more creative than corporate America has crossed the line into absurdity, thanks to Carrie R. Yunker and her daughter Nicole. Nicole is …